Textile-treating carrier



July 16, 1929. Q N AL 1,721,134

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TEXTILE-TREATING CARRIER.

Application filed. March so, 1927. semi No. 179,503.

This invention relates to textile treating carriers for use in subjecting textile materials to chemical treatment by dipping in a suitable chemical solution, for washing such materials or for drying the same.

The present invention has for its object to provide means by which such treating, washing or drying operations may be performed more rapidly or more effectively and by which the action on the textile material is more uniform.

One important application of the present invention is to the treatment of artificial silk fiber which." after being spun and wound in spools is subjected to a treatment in an acid solution. The present invention provides means by which the fibers throughout the spool-are caused to be uniformly acted upon by the solution and by which the time the spools are required to remain in the solution may be greatly reduced.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention may be said to comprise the device as illustrated in the accompanying drawings hereinafter described and particularly set forth in the appended claims together with such variations and modifications thereof as will be apparent to one skilled in the art to which the invention appertains.

Reference should be hadto the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which:

Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation showing the carrier lowered into a dipping tank and the spool supporting frame-connected to a suc tion ump on the tank for circulating the liqui through the spools and hollow supporting frame.

Fig. 2 is an end elevationof the carrier.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line indi cated at 33 in Fig. 2.

As illustratedherein the carrier of the present invention is adapted to travel along an overhead trackway indicated by the numeral 1 for conveying the textile material to and from the,dipping tank. In Fig. 1 of the drawing the carriers are shown in lowered position with the spool supporting frame positioned in a dipping tank 2, the lowering of the carrier being accomplished by means of a drop track section 3 which isadapted to be lowered from a position in alignment with the main track 1 to a position directly over the dipping tank. .The

carrier includes a carriage 4 adapted to fittings 9. The intermediate cross members are connected to the end members by suitable fluid-tight T-fittings 10. intermediate the ends thereof the tubular cross members are provided at intervals with diametrically opposite openings 11 and secured to the tubular members over the openings are fittings 12 which have enlarged lateral extensions 13. These extensions are provided with central threaded openings 14 which receive the inner threaded ends of rods 15 which extend outwardly from the cross members at right angles thereto. The extensions 13 also have openings 16 surrounding the central threaded openings 14 so that a passage is provided through the fittings to the interior of the tubular member. The extensions 13 are provided with shoulders 17 adapted to support the inner ends of cylinders v18 which are 'ro vided with circumferentiall spaced e ongated openings 19. The cylinders 18 form supports for spools 20 of textile material, each cylinder being adapted to support two spools end to .end and'having two sets of longitudinally spaced openings 19, one within each of the spools supported thereon. Theopenings 19 extend throughout the major portion of the periphery of the cylinder and each spool 20 is of substantially the same length as the openings, the spools being positioned-on the cylinder over the openings by means of spacers 21 at the inner end of the cylinder, intermediate spacers 22 and 22' and spacers 23 at the outer ends of the cylinders which are engaged by clamping disks 24 provided with central openings to receive the rods 15 and clamped against the end of the cylinder by means of nuts 25 on the outer threaded ends of the rods 15.

One of the corner fittin' s of the frame 6 is provided with an extension 26 adapted to be coupled by any suitable disconneotable coupling means to a pipeor hose 27 extending to the inlet of a suction pump 28 which has a discharge pipe 29 extending into the upper portion of the tank.

The spool supporting rack is filled with through the spools into the cylinders 18 and from the cylinders 18 through the frame to the suction pump. The passage of liquid through the spools causes the material in the spools to be quickly and uniformly saturated with the solution so that the length of time required for thetreatment of the material is greatly reduced. After the treatment of the spools in a tank containing a suitable chemical solution the spools may be washed in a.

similar tank containing pure Water and the Washing operation is also greatly facilitated by the suction through the supporting frame. If desired, the suction may be employed to hasten the drying of the spools by drawing air through the spools and hollow frame by means of a suction pump. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A textile treating carrier comprising a frame having end and crossmembers formed of tubing connected by fluid-tight joints and having means adjacent the top thereof for connecting the same with a suction pump, and hollow perforated spool receiving cylin ders attached to fittings secured to the cross members and supported exclusively thereby, said cylinders and tubular cross members being in communication through said fittings.

2. A textile treating carrier comprising a carriage adapted to travel along an overhead trackway, a hollow frame arranged in a vertical plane and suspended from the cartight joints, a fluid pump, means permitting the connection and disconnection of said pump and frame, and perforated spool supports mounted exclusively uponsaid horizontal tubes, projecting laterally therefrom and connected with the interior thereof by openings in said tubes.

4. A textile treating carrier, comprising a vertical frame including a plurality of parallel tubes interconnected at their ends, a fluid pump, means permitting the connection and disconnection of said pump and frame, and perforated spool supports mounted exclusively upon said tubes, projecting laterally therefrom and connected with'the interior thereof by openings in the tubes.

5. A textile treating carrier, comprising a vertical frame including a plurality of parallel tubes, means at the respective ends of said tubes for connecting them rigidly together and preventing the escape of fluid, said means at one end providing fluid interconnections for all of said parallel tubes, a fluid pump, means permitting the connection and disconnection of said pum from the last named end of said frame, an perforated spool supports mounted exclusively upon said tubes, projecting laterally therefrom and connected with the interior thereof by openings in the tubes.

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MORRIS G. ROSENTHAL. 

